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Aliens: Colonial Marines is Not Dead: Confirmed

Sega and Gearbox confirm that the Aliens: Colonial Marines is alive and well.

With all this talk of Sega and Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator, gamers were starting to question the safety of Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines project. With the suspension of Obsidian's Aliens RPG game, it was not known if Sega was still looking to complete and publish the Colonial Marines title.

According to a news item on GameSpot however, fans of the Aliens franchise can relax. Gearbox's CEO Randy Pitchford confirmed that Aliens: Colonial Marines is alive and well, and that the reason the project has not received much attention recently is that because the developer is hard at work on Borderlands. This gels with our news from April that Gearbox was still hiring for the game.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford also confirmed that the game, previously announced for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, remains at his studio.

"We know people care about the project and want to know more," Pitchford told GameSpot. "This is very exciting for us because we care tremendously about the project ourselves. However, since the project was originally announced, we haven't announced any status changes and we decided a while ago to try to ignore the rumors and speculation that we've seen come out about it. We prefer instead to focus on our objectives and our craft of game-making."

Also, it appears as though a Nintendo DS title sporting the Aliens: Colonial Marines label is in the works too.

Take a deep breath... of alien egg-tube.

Bryn says: It won't be out this year, but hey, that means 2010 brings in two Aliens games, and I'm totally OK with that, my friends. Smartguns on standby!